About the Authors

Na Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Guilin Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Junxia Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Baozhen Hua

huabzh@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZH NM. Performed the experiments: NM GLH JXZ. Analyzed the data: NM GLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZH NM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NM BZH. Conceived and revised the paper: BZH. Designed the experiments and drafted the manuscript: NM. Performed light microscope imaging and morphological and statistical analysis: NM GLH. Carried out SEM and some LM imaging: JXZ.